Hugh Cayless
Senior Digital Humanities Developer at Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing (DC3)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolHugh Cayless is a Senior Digital Humanities Developer with 17 years of experience building scholarly and cultural-heritage web systems, currently supporting research and publication workflows at Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing. He pairs deep expertise in XML technologies (XSLT, XQuery, XSL-FO) with a polyglot programming background in Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, and Clojure to architect robust data-driven publishing pipelines. Hugh’s career includes leading digital library R&D at UNC Chapel Hill and developing the widely used Papyrological Navigator at NYU, reflecting a specialty in metadata, information architecture, and linked-data publication. An experienced educator and technical trainer, he brings classroom-tested clarity to complex technical problems and project management. He combines humanities scholarship (PhD in Classics) with an MSIS in Information Science, an unusual blend that informs thoughtful, domain-aware software design. Based in Chapel Hill, he is driven by expanding both technical depth and the impact of digital scholarship tools.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Classics, History, BA, Classics, History at Cornell UniversityMSIS, Information Science, MSIS, Information Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (97)
html-document10
tei10
encoding10
rest-api10
javascript10
text-encoding10
open-access10
stylesheets10
jupyter10
java10
navigator10
openoffice10
gitbook10
leiden10
odt10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
hcayless/P3-processing
Jan 2021 - Jun 2024
Contributions:172 pushes, 1 branch, 37 comments in 3 years 5 months
dcthree/ides-parser
Mar 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:23 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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